Nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Picture, Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple" (1985) features powerhouse performances by Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey. Goldberg makes her dramatic feature debut as Celie, an oppressed Southern woman sold into a sorrowful live of servitude in the film adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Glover co-stars as Celie's abusive husband, and Winfrey plays her tough yet also broken sister-in-law.

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Nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Picture, Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple" (1985) features powerhouse performances by Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey. Goldberg makes her dramatic feature debut as Celie, an oppressed Southern woman sold into a sorrowful live of servitude in the film adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Glover co-stars as Celie's abusive husband, and Winfrey plays her tough yet also broken sister-in-law.